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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 323.1198009031
EAN: 9780872206250
ISBN: 0872206254
Label: Hackett Pub Co
Manufacturer: Hackett Pub Co
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: September 01, 2003
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co
Studio: Hackett Pub Co
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Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain's conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolome de las Casas dedicated his Brevisima Relacion de la Destruicion de las Indias to Philip II of Spain. An impassioned plea on behalf of the native peoples of the West Indies, the Brevisima Relacion catalogues in horrific detail atrocities it attributes to the king's colonists in the New World. The result is a withering indictment of the conquerors that has cast a 500-year shadow over the subsequent history of that world and the European colonisation of it. Andrew Hurley's daring new translation dramatically foreshortens that 500 years by reversing the usual priority of a translation; rather than bring the Brevisima Relacion to the reader, it brings the reader to the Brevisima Relacion -- not as it is, but as it might have been, had it been originally written in English. The translator thus allows himself no words or devices unavailable in English by 1560, and in so doing reveals the prophetic voice, urgency and clarity of the work, qualities often obscured in modern translations. An Introduction by Franklin Knight, notes, a map, and a judicious set of Related Readings offer further aids to a fresh appreciation of this foundational historical and literary work of the New World and European engagement with it.
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I thought I knew what I was getting into, but even though I'd braced myself the carnage and sick behavior described was hard to bear. The translation is excellent and very apt: by keeping the language in its period there is more of a connection, somehow. The evil that man can exhibit is very clearly and urgently communicated by Las Casas. It makes one wonder about our species, and naturally one is led to think about more recent horrors that we have committed against each other. Yes, gold drove the ... Read More
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